`RE: [Cxtable-devel] Uncategorized....

[Williams, D. <DAV...@ca...>]

Does that then mean that..

c:\windows 

being in the classpath does not mean that c:\windows\desktop is in the claspath...right?

Do you have access to that byte-stream classloader?  Maybe we could read the file in a "bytes" and instantiate it at run-time that way...


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-----Original Message-----
From: Borne Goodman-Mace [mailto:bm...@eg...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:59 PM
To: Williams, David
Subject: RE: [Cxtable-devel] Uncategorized....


There are ways to ClassLoad classes which are not in our current
classpath.  I once wrote a ClassLoader myself which pulled classes as
byte streams over a network connection and instantiated them at
run-time.  I believe there is also a way to set the ClassLoader path at
run-time, but I am not 100% sure on that.  It would be optimal though
for the classes being instantiated to be in the classpath at the time
that the VM started up.  This could be done by having a script that sets
the classpath based on the .jar files in a particular directory, or a
slew of other ways.

--bjgm

On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 15:40, Williams, David wrote:
> That brings up yet another question...
> 
> If there is a folder.
> 
> cxtable\
> 
> And there is a folder
> cxtable\bin\
> 
> And there is a folder 
> cxtable\plugins\
> 
> What if the classpath is NOT set right?  Is there a way for the program to access plugins dynamically, using "..\..\FOLDER\" as its path to load the class?
>